Whew, my 10,000th post.....Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
Yes, that is what I said…..pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
We hear this all the time. What is wrong with you? Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps. So let’s take a look at how that will go. Let’s assume you have boots. With straps. Now grab those straps. Pull. Pull harder. You aren’t pulling hard enough, put all you have into it. Pull until you are exhausted. Then keep pulling.
Did you get anywhere? Is it possible for you to get any further than where you started?
What the hell are they talking about? This is the sickest joke on the poor, telling them that they should pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Why are we even letting this expression be used without making the user look like a fucking idiot?
Or maybe, this is just what they mean when they use this expression----keep trying, boys and girls. Get yourself too tired to fight anymore, and then we will not have to deal with you anymore.
And that, folks, is my 10,000 post. I spent too much time thinking about the impossible and what it means.
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Since I don't post all that much, I thought I'd never get here.
We could do so much infrastructure improvement, which is the same as job creation with something to see at the end.
Sigh.
And I agree with you about the nonsensicality of that particular idiom.
It have been a long strange trip.
You used the name of another DUer in your post.
You start to notice odd things like that when you are sleep deprived. 
Go to bed!
For the record, my OP was not satire. It was a real observation of a real problem. I hate that expression, and I do want to call people out about the impossibility of what they tell people to do. I don't want to argue with them anymore about why or why not we have boots.
But I do appreciate the enhancement of the discussion.
... for putting the words to something many of us have thought.
Excellent.
You rock. 
Never thought I'd get this far......and I am shocked at myself that I stop here every day. I never thought that I would have an obsession that continued this long.
It's been good.
And thank you for your thots.
And I thought that getting to 1000 was a challenge, back when that was the benchmark to stop being a "newby".
I have enjoyed the time it took to get here.
and maybe it was appropriate at one time or another but it doesn't apply anymore. Coming from my background (which is another topic all together), I have done this all my life. One of the last blow's was my career. I put myself through school, learned a computer technical trade, got a job, bought a house, but somewhere along the way....
...it turned into 60 hour weeks with no extra pay, more work for less money, jobs started being shipped over seas, jobs here started disappearing, to current, I'm a self employed contractor struggling to find my next gig.
I dotted my I's and crossed my T's and did all correct things according to historical experience.
It doesn't apply anymore.
Now it's back to square one and I can't find my boot straps, I've gone through so many of them, is this all there is from now and forward into retirement, or should I say faux retirement?
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You have the right attitude. Being happy is what matters most, and I am glad to hear that you are happy.
And do you mean you are grateful that you are not a Tea Party Republican....since they are the ones who look the most like fucking idiots. I'm glad you are here!
Congratulations on your 10,000th post.
I pretty much hate the expression myself. I remember being told I had to pay my dues, bide my time, etc. Many people manage to break the chain of poverty but it's not simply because they "wished" for it and if they just wished harder, they could pull themselves up by their boot straps. (!)
About bootstraps, seems to me people would first need to have the boots with straps before they could attempt that impossible feat. Who the hell can afford those? They don't just give those things away ya know. 
I've never liked that saying.
I agree that you do need boots first, but the point really is that this expression makes no sense, and it is used all the time...makes me wonder if it is intentional. Do these people who use it want us to just kill ourselves trying to do the impossible?
Good to see ya. 
a little or more money,erroneously believe they did it and so can you. Well, I call bullshit on that. I don't think anyone can become even middle class, never mind rich, without some type of help from others.
To me, that saying is one that people use to belittle others and/or to puff up themselves.
Good to see you too.
It took me nearly three years to get here, and most of those posts were silly or just meant to kick a thread that I found interesting and worthy of being seen. Doesn't matter though, a post is a post, isn't it?
I really never figured I would be coming here this long....I tend to bore easily. So this really is something special for me....I got bored with Facebook within a month. So it is quite a compliment to DU and all the people here that they can keep my attention.
And don't feel bad that you have nothing to say. And that you didn't think of starting a thread.
Snark off-----congratulation to you too.
